Everything is working! My final problem was with mythtv-setup. When I ran it from the desktop shortcut it created it runs gksudo and I enter my password to have it run as root. But for some reason it won't open the analog side of the card for me to configure it for mythtv.
If I open a terminal and 'sudo su' then 'mythtv-setup', it can open and configure the card. Go figure. I noticed something similar when I was using the sysfs interface to test pvrusb2. If I 'sudo echo television > cur_val' I get permission denied. If I 'sudo su' first, I can then write values. Thanks to Mike and Hans and the other v4l-dvb developers for working through this. You are a very responsive and helpful developer group. I'm diggin my new pvr. -vincent On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Mike Isely <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, fivenote wrote: > >> I pulled from Hans' tree, compiled and installed the drivers. >> >> Using sysfs I could set cur_val to television and successfully 'cat >> /dev/video0'. mplayer also opened the card and was picking up a stream >> but all I got was a blank mplayer window. When I tried to setup the >> analog card in myth setup, it couldn't open the card and this showed >> in syslog when it tried... > > If you can cat /dev/video0 and get a valid stream then the driver is > working. If mplayer still displays blank video on /dev/video0 then > you've got mplayer set up wrong (or there's some kind of problem with > mplayer). What happens if you do this: > > cat /dev/video0 >/tmp/foo.mpg > # Wait a little while then hit ^C > mplayer /tmp/foo.mpg > > Do you get useable video in that case? > > >> >> Jan 15 22:27:05 vaohybrid kernel: [10783.878071] firmware: requesting >> v4l-cx25840.fw >> Jan 15 22:27:07 vaohybrid kernel: [10785.566434] cx25840' 0-0044: >> loaded v4l-cx25840.fw firmware (12559 bytes) > >> Jan 15 22:27:18 vaohybrid kernel: [10796.169487] cx25840' 0-0044: >> 0x0000 is not a valid video input! > > When the HVR-1950 is in digital mode, the cx25840 is not used. At those > times it could potentially be fed an invalid input routing. I've known > about this for a while, but it's completely benign (and not trivial to > fix) so I haven't done anything about it. > > -Mike > > -- > > Mike Isely > isely @ pobox (dot) com > PGP: 03 54 43 4D 75 E5 CC 92 71 16 01 E2 B5 F5 C1 E8 > _______________________________________________ > pvrusb2 mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2 > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ VAO - [email protected] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ pvrusb2 mailing list [email protected] http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2
